...are more sweet than honey, resembling figs, and also the nuts which we call nuts of India.* Haying departed hence he sailed up the river Ganges for the...landed at an extremely powerful city called Maarazia, where there is a great abundance of aloe wood, gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls. From thence...

...about the height of a man. Crocodiles and various kinds of fishes unknown to us are found in the river. On both banks of the stream there are most charming villas and plantations and gardens, wherein grow vast varieties of fruits, and above all those called musa,2 which are more sweet than...

...Ganges, and, Bailing up it, at the end of fifteen days he came to a large and wealthy citT called Ceruove On both banks of the stream there are most charming...behind him four very famous cities, and landed at au extremely powerful city called Maarazia . ... . having spent thirteen days 'on an expedition to...

...And Nicolo Conti, in the fifteenth century perhaps the first European to sail upriver, observed that 'on both banks of the stream there are most charming villas and plantations and gardens, wherein grow vast varieties of fruits, and above all those called Musa [banana], which are more sweet...